[ale] bash commands

[Matthew]

I was using that as an example, not always grepping.

On 5/21/12, Geoffrey Myers <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
> On 05/21/2012 09:58 AM, Matthew wrote:
>> Never use pipe | for that, usually in this context, "cat doc |grep hello"
>
> But then, this is a waste of a process when you could simply do this:
>
> grep hello doc
>
>>
>> On 5/21/12, Geoffrey Myers<lists at serioustechnology.com>  wrote:
>>> On 05/18/2012 05:27 PM, Drifter wrote:
>>>> I keep reminding myself that I don't begin to know what I think I know!
>>>> :(
>>>>
>>>> I am about to upgrade this box, finally from FC 13 to FC 14.
>>>> Ought to be simple enough.  I have the CD, which I think will do a
>>>> clean
>>>> install onto a software RAID.
>>>>
>>>> Prior to that I really ought to have on hand a list of all the
>>>> installed
>>>> packages.
>>>>
>>>> So I created a file<app_list.txt>   on the Desktop and then tried this:
>>>>
>>>> yum list installed | ~/Desktop/app_list.txt
>>>> and got back this
>>>>
>>>> bash: /home/kilpatms/Desktop/app_list.txt: Permission denied
>>>>
>>>> WTF!
>>>
>>> The | is used to send the put of a command for processing by another
>>> command, thus your attempt above is going to try to execute your
>>> app_list.txt file.  You want to redirect the output to the file:
>>>
>>> yum list installed>  ~/Desktop/app_list.txt
>>>
>>>>
>>>> So I checked the perms on the existing (empty) file and they were
>>>> correct.
>>>> Then I tried the same thing as root, expanding the ~/ and got the same
>>>> response.
>>>>
>>>> So, How DO I make yum throw a list of the installed packages to a text
>>>> file
>>>> rather than to the terminal?
>>>>
>>>> Sean
>>>>
>>>>
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>
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